There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.

I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

If you want easy, don't pick fashion.

Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.